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Verdict in private schools case is wrong

It's good to have a Supreme Court which cares even when the government doesn't. But, at times the Supreme Court can get it hopelessly wrong. Chief Justice Kapadia's (with Swatantra Kumar J., Radhakrishnan J. dissenting) Unaided Schools judgment on the right to primary education is wrong, wrong, wrong - obfuscating issues and unsettling what was settled. What was at issue was Article 21A which says 'The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the state may, by law determine.'

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